From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3717: M-x man completion Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:30:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bpo6p3de.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> <87ab3pfqj0.fsf@jidanni.org> <87ocmsqa7z.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87d4364lmh.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87ocmqcnj3.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <873a42tcqf.fsf@blah.blah> <878wdt4ou2.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87aay9546p.fsf@blah.blah> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier , 3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259290064 18447 80.91.229.12 (27 Nov 2009 02:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, jidanni@jidanni.org To: Kevin Ryde Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 03:47:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NDqrw-0006eL-5b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:47:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDqrv-0001Yh-82 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:47:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDqrq-0001XO-Co for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:47:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDqrm-0001VB-W5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:47:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51028 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDqrm-0001V8-NT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:49213) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDqrm-0005it-BQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nAR2lMhE031615; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:47:23 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nAR2e5sA030911; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:40:05 -0800 Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:40:05 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:40:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 3717 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3717-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B3717.125928908130281 (code B ref 3717); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:40:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3717) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 27 Nov 2009 02:31:21 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nAR2VJBl030278 for <3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:31:21 -0800 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuQEAD/JDktFpYc//2dsb2JhbACBTNQJhDEEihk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,298,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="50134482" Original-Received: from 69-165-135-63.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.165.135.63]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 26 Nov 2009 21:30:56 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5FE3EB40E6; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:30:56 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87aay9546p.fsf@blah.blah> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:09:18 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:47:30 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:32973 Archived-At: >> I can't say in advance how convenient it would be to use them for >> man completions. > Could be a bit noisy, or stop you easily seeing all of a medium-long > list of completions. Is there a conventional builtin way to > enable/disable annotations on a particular flavour of completion? > A flag or function variable would work no doubt. I've been mulling over completing-help for quite a while now and I don't think a customization var is a good solution. Instead, we'd want something more dynamic. An easy solution is to put a help-echo property on the completion string. Otherwise some completion-list-mode command should be provided to toggle annotations. Stefan